During my onboarding at EF, we watched a Ted Talk by Jia Jiang that resonated with me. The talk discusses strategies for handling rejection, a crucial skill in sales. Surprisingly, I found the insights from the video to be equally applicable in my personal life. A few nights ago. my older daughter wanted to go […]
This is a challenge as part of INTE 5430 to create a piece of design fiction. I chose to illustrate a concept that is quickly becoming reality. The idea of allowing students to attend school virtually, rather than just online via computers, is already on the minds of many educators. From a safety standpoint it
In 2014, a young girl named Morgan Geyser stabbed a classmate nearly twenty times. She did it because an online figure called Slenderman told her to. This is troubling. Children are having trouble distinguishing fact from fiction on the internet. Recently young children across the world were encountering a creepy figure called Momo who was
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The Laws of Simplicity by John Maeda is mainly geared toward product design. The book, broken down into ten laws and three keys, provides a succinct glimpse into how to attain simplicity and sanity in an increasingly complex world. I am close to graduating with a master’s degree in Learning Design and Technology and will
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Introducing new innovations is no easy feat. From schools to the corporate world, people don’t like things to change. Being a change agent has it’s challenges, but once you identify them and practice solutions, success is not impossible. I recently tried my hand at a simulation that allowed me to attempt to bring about change
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This is a collection of resources to aid in the career search process and professional development for current and former students in the Information and Learning Design Program at the University of Colorado Denver. Please contact Leela Welch with specific inquires or additions. Blogs and Webinars How to Become an Instructional Designer This blog post
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I am in a position where I am not sure what my future career will be. I could end up as an Instructional Designer in the corporate world, working in for an EdTech department, I could head back to the classroom as a teacher or even wind up in a position I’m not aware of
Need or Problem I am in the process of a career transition. I spent the last six years teaching middle and high school in 1:1 device schools. My growing interest and passion for educational technology led me to the Information and Learning Technologies program at the University of Colorado, Denver. I am now in the
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Prompt: A clear lesson from history is that it’s easy to follow fads and have unrealistic expectations about a new technology’s potential, leading to a backlash when the research findings are disappointing. What current trends might be good candidates for a backlash today? What could be done to make a backlash less likely or severe?
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Prompt: Is “laggard” an appropriate term for the slower adopters? Does it promote change? Is there another word that might be more fitting? Laggard seems to be an appropriate choice given the time period that it was first utilized by Everett Rogers. There is a distinct group who do, “hold out to the bitter end”